Paramount+ documentary is more concerned with the Oscar-winning actor’s feelings about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky than anything else
Who do you think you are, Walter Cronkite? You have a savior complex?
“I’ve been lucky enough to be able to travel,” Penn answers in a voiceover, “and, weathered though it is, my famous face gets me access to places and people I may otherwise not have known. And sometimes I feel I can be helpful.” Thus the stage is set for a two-hour foray into Penn’s adventures in Ukraine, a country he says he visited seven times in the span of a year and a half. The original plan was to make a film about
, famously propelled to the presidency after campaigning as an outsider who vowed to “break the system” and its attendant corruption, mimicking the storyline ofbegan pounding Kyiv as it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting the bloodiest war on European soil in decades. Penn was in the city at the time, about to hold his first meeting with the Ukrainian president.
“This is a biased documentary,” Penn told an audience of around 80 people at a small screening in Tribeca last week. “If it’s propaganda, I’m proud.”There’s a real story for Penn to tell here, one he is perhaps uniquely positioned to deliver: how Zelensky, a political novice, used his decades in show business to muster the PR skills to win unprecedented Western support as his country sought to fight off a ruthless, nuclear-armed neighbor.
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